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A George III Silver Helmet Shaped Cream Jug with shaped handle and square pedestal base, London 1785, 6 ozs

*Aethelred II, Helmet type penny, Norwich, leofstan mo no, 1.17g (N. 775; S. 1152), chipped, fine to good fine

*Aethelred II, Helmet type penny, Winchester (?), alf[]od m-o p[], 1.31g (N. 775; S. 1152), chipped, about fine

*Edward the Confessor, Pointed Helmet penny, Norwich, đorstan iio norpi, 1.19g (N. 825; S. 1179), very fine

*Edward the Confessor, Pointed Helmet penny, York, vlfctel on eofrpi, 1.27g (N. 825; S. 1179), good very fine

*Edward the Confessor, Pointed Helmet penny, York, spartcol on eofr, 1.37g (N. 825; S. 1179), good very fine

*Edward the Confessor, cut quarter of a Pointed Helmet penny, possibly York, [ ]on e[ ] 0.39g (cf. N. 825; S. 1179), fine

*Stephen, Baronial Issue of Eustace Fitzjohn, penny, York, obv., evst acivs+, full figure of Knight wearing mail armour and a pointed helmet facing right, holding raised sword, with pellet in annulet either side of helmet and before sword hilt, shaped ornament in field behind, rev., eboraci . tdefг, single pellet in annulet stop, cross pattée with barred arms within quatrefoil, annulets in spandrels, 1.15g (Mack 221-222 (see note below); N. 929(a); S. 1316), very minor rim fault, virtually as struck, an iconic and excessively rare coin of the Anarchy. Mack illustrates three coins as his reference no. 221, of which 221(c) and 221 (d) are struck from the same die as the present coin, with normal s’s in evstacivs. However the reverse is as Mack 222 (= B.M.C. 265), displaying very minor differences but the same characteristic legend. It may further be noted that Mack’s reference no. 224(d) as coming from the Archbishop Sharp collection appears to be erroneous and that this remarkably well-preserved coin was probably the piece he intended to record. The ‘Yorkshire magnate’ Eustace Fitzjohn supported Stephen early in his reign, although Stephen deprived him of his custody of Bamburgh Castle in February 1138 on the grounds that his allegiance was leaning towards the Empress Matilda. Eustace sided with King David of Scotland at the Battle of the Standard in August where he may have been wounded, being described in contemporary chronicles as ‘that one-eyed traitor’, but he does seem later to have become reconciled to Stephen’s rule. Coincidentally Archbishop Sharp and his successors were closely associated with Bamburgh Castle which had been severely damaged during the Wars of the Roses. In particular Dr John Sharp (1723-1792), Archdeacon of Northumberland, grandson of the Archbishop and custodian of his collection, was responsible for major refurbishment work at Bamburgh Castle in the late 18th Century.

EDWARDIAN ENGRAVED SILVER PLATED SUGAR HELMET WITH HINGED LID AND MATCHING SPOON.HEIGHT: 6 INCHES.WIDTH: 4 INCHES.DEPTH: 5 INCHES.IN GOOD CONDITION.

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A GEORGIAN SILVER HELMET SHAPED CREAM JUG a silver Georgian style salt; four silver napkin rings; a similar toast rack; a pair of Georgian silver sugar tongs; a Georgian silver sifting spoon; a small collection of silver flatware; a cased silver spoon and pusher; cased set of five teaspoons with tongs; 1,200g (38.7 troy ozs) gross; with plated and metalware items

A First World War American 1917 bayonet, the 42cm blade with makers stamp (a/f) together with a webbed helmet and a green scout beret

A reproduction Medieval 16th century style helmet of cast metal construction having a hammered and nailed appearance.

**A COMPOSITE CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR, MAINLY ITALIAN, 16TH AND EARLY 17TH CENTURIES WITH ETCHED AND GILT DECORATION OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY STYLE comprising German close helmet of the second quarter of the 16th century, with rounded one-piece skull rising to a low medial comb (split at its rear), and associated visor, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots (replaced), the forward-projecting visor pierced beneath a pair of stepped vision-slits with several small ventilation-holes and slots, and a pair of large sub-rectangular apertures closed by later horizontal and vertical bars, the prow-shaped upper bevor pierced at each side with numerous ventilation-holes and slots, and fitted at the right of the chin with a sliding catch to engage a notch cut in the face-opening of the lower bevor, the latter fitted at the same side with a swivel-hook to engage a pierced stud (in both cases replaced) on the skull, the hollowed lower edges of the skull and lower bevor restored; collar of two lames front and rear (restored using old plates); breastplate formed of a main plate of early 'peascod' fashion, fitted at each of its arm-openings with a moveable gusset and flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of one centrally-divided lame (restored), supporting on paired straps and buckles (replaced) long tassets each of nine lames (the first of the left associated and the fifth of the right patched at its centre) terminating in winged poleyns (the lowest two of the left associated and reworked); one-piece backplate with an outward-flanged lower edge; large symmetrical pauldrons, each of seven lames (the sixth of the left patch at its front end, the third of the right patched at its centre rear and the lowest four of the right associated), and connected by a turner (that of the left patched at its upper end, and that of the right restored), to fully articulated tubular vambraces with winged bracelet couters each of three lames; fingered gauntlets each with a flared and obtusely-pointed tubular cuff (the right lacking its outer lower corner), four metacarpal-plates (the second of the left patched at its outer end), a shaped knuckle-plate, and scaled finger- and thumb-defences; and tubular greaves (restored) each cut at its lower end with an arch to accommodate an integral round-toed sabaton of eight lames; the main edges of the armour formed with inward turns, mostly file-roped, and its surfaces etched with an overall pattern of imbricated architectural arches enclosing crowned eagles and lions on a stippled ground and retaining traces of gilding (some chipping, cracking and holing throughout; and the surface worn, patinated and tarnishing overall) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands.Provenance Nosely Hall, Leicestershire Sold Sotheby's, 28 September 1998, lot 17.Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado.The decoration of the armour was probably inspired by that of an Italian armour made for Count Annabile Capodilista about 1620, which was purchased for the Tower of London Armouries in 1840 (now numbered II. 192), following its use by the 'Guard Attendant of the Queen of Beauty" in the Eglinton Tournament of the previous year. See Blair 1969, pp. 22-7, pls 5 & 6.

A HIGHLY RARE AND IMPORTANT ENGLISH JACK OF PLATE, CIRCA 1580-90 formed of small overlapping square plates of iron with cropped corners, secured by lines of diagonal, vertical, or in some cases horizontal, stitches of crossbow twine through holes at their centres between the inner and outer layers of a fabric doublet of 'peascod' fashion with a frontal opening situated slightly to the left of centre and originally closed by laces passing through pairs of reinforced holes, an upstanding collar devoid, like the edges of the arm-openings, of plates, and a short skirt, the whole enclose between two outer layers of fine linen canvas covered with modern nylon netting and overlying felted woven wool on the outside and a coarser canvas on the inside of the garment, and decorated with white woollen tufts at the intersections of the stitches (the outer fabric partly discoloured, worn through at points and split at the shoulders and some other points; and the plates in some cases patinated to a green colour) 72.0 cm; 28? in Provenance Sir William ffarindon, Worden Hall, Lancashire (sold by auction 1948) A private English collection Literature Alexander de Cosson & William Burgess, 'Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail', Archaeological Journal, Vol. XXXVII, 1881, p. 591. Ian Eaves, 'On the Remains of a Jack of Plate Excavated from Beeston Castle in Cheshire', Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, Vo. XIII, no. 2, September 1989, p. 137, n. 29) The jack of plate - sometimes referred to in contemporary documents as a 'steel coat', a 'plate coat' or a 'coat of plate' - was a uniquely British defence first recognisably mentioned in English and Scottish records of the second quarter of the 16th century (Eaves 1989, pp. 85-6 & 144, n. 48), p. 145, n. 52). The inventory of the holdings of the Office of the Armouries taken on the death of Henry VIII in 1547 mentions 'a Northerne Jack covered with lynnen' and three 'Northern Jackes made of Canvas and plate' (Harold A. Dillon, 'Arms and Armour at Westminster, the Tower and Greenwich', Archaeologia, Vol. LI, 1888, pp. 52 & 57). Although defences of this kind ceased to be manufactured towards the end of the 16th century (Eaves 1989, p.86 & 148, n. 60), their use persisted into the early years of the following century. In 1622 some forty examples were issued from the Armouries of the Tower of London for use in America by the Virginia Company (Eaves 1986, p. 86 & 148, n. 61). William Harrison in his description of England first published in 1577, observed that 'Our armour …consisteth of corselets, almaine riverets, shirtes of mayle, Jacke quilted over wyth leather, fustian or canuas ouer thicke plates of yron that are sewed into the same, and of which there is no towne or village that hath not hir conuenient furniture (in Ralph Holinshead, The First Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland, London, 1557, f. 86v). Today, however, only sixteen more or less complete jacks of plate are preserved worldwide. Aside from the example offered here, eight (only five of which are complete) can be recorded in the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, one in the British Museum, London, one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, one in the Royal Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, one in Warwick Castle, Warwickshire, one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, and one in the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, Zurich (Eaves 1989, pp. 135-7, n. 22-6 & 2). Of these, only the last two along one of those in the Royal Armouries and that recently acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Thomas Del Mar Ltd, 7 Dec. 2016, lot 51), have their frontal openings offset to one side of centre as on the present lot. The present lot together with the examples now in the Royal Armouries and the Victoria and Albert Museum formed part of a collection assembled at Worden Hall, Lancashire, by Sir William ffarington (c. 1704-81) sometime after 1765. They are unlikely to have formed part of the Hall's indigenous armoury which was sequestered by Parliament in 1643 (Susan Maria ffarington, The ffarington Papers, Chetham Society, 1856, p. 93), although it was said that one of the three did service, together with a helmet and other pieces, as part of a funeral achievement eventually removed from the ffarington Chapel in Leyland Church in 1816 (De Cosson & Burgess 1881, p. 591). The collection was in due course added to by Miss Susan ffarington in the 19th century. An 18th century inventory of it is preserved in New Zealand while three 19th century ones, dating from 1846 to circa 1870 are privately preserved in England, and refer to '3 Brigandine Jackets (for Bowmen. (Elizn'. A drawing of what is almost certainly one of these jacks is preserved in a manuscript catalogue prepared by the late 18th century Manchester antiquary Thomas Barritt and now preserved in the Manchester City Library (Ancient Armour and Weapons in the Possession of Thos Barrit 1793). The catalogue shows objects both in his own collection and of others that he visited in the north of England. He describes the jack as 'A Bigantine jacket quilted within with square pieces of iron about an inch in diameter and sliding over each other like the scales of fishes, and covered over with strong linen'. One of the Worden jacks (probably that now in the Royal Armouries Museum, inv. No. III.1884) was lent by Miss ffarington to the Exhibition of Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail held in the rooms of the British Archaeological Association in 1881 (De Cosson & Burgess 1881, cat. no. 49, p.591) The collection was sold by a local auctioneer in 1948. The purchaser of the three jacks subsequently lent them to Rufford Old Hall, Lancashire. One of them in due course passed to a private collection in the USA but was in 1982 acquired by the Royal Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, while that now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and that offered here had from some time before 1981 been sent for conservation to the North Western Museum and Art Gallery Service at Blackburn, Lancashire." At some time before 1981 it was sent for conservation to the North Western Museum and Art Gallery Service at Blackburn, Lancashire, where it was enclosed within protective nylon netting.

A CAP-A-PIE FIELD ARMOUR WITH ETCHED DECORATION IN THE ITALIAN STYLE OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH CENTURY, 19TH CENTURY comprising close helmet with two-piece skull joined along the crest of a low medial comb, and a peak, upper bevor and lower bevor attached to it by common pivots, the upper bevor cut at each side of its upper edge of with a broad trapezoidal notch serving as a vision-slit, and pieced at each side with seven circular ventilation-holes in rosette-formation, the upper and lower bevors each secured at their right sides by swivel-hooks and pierced studs, and a pair of gorget-plates front and rear; collar of two lames front and rear; one-piece breastplate of 'deep-bellied' form, flanged outwards at its lower edge to receive a fauld of two lames cut at the centre of its lower edge with a shallow arch separating a pair of pendent tassets each of five lames worn over a skirt of butted mail; one-piece backplate with an outward-flanged lower edge; large symmetrical pauldrons, each of five lames (the left partly disarticulated), connected by turners to fully articulated tubular vambraces with winged bracelet couters each of five lames; fingered gauntlets with long pointed tubular cuffs; gutter-shaped cuisses terminating in winged poleyns each of three lames; tubular greaves each articulated once at their lower ends and fitted with integral sabatons with pointed toe-caps, each of seven lames; and a circular steel target rising at its centre to a quadrangular spike and fitted at its rear with a pair of leather enarmes; all parts etched on a blackened ground between plain bands and borders with scrolling foliage and flower-heads inhabited by mythical beasts; the armour mounted on a wooden stand with a rectangular base and accompanied by a sword with tapering two-edged blade, transversely-grooved kite-shaped pommel, straight quillons flaring to trefoil terminals and leather-covered wooden grip (tarnished and lightly patinated overall)

TWO MINIATURE ARMOURS IN 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 20TH CENTURY the first with visored close-helmet, etched cuirass applied with the crowned double-eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, a pair of full arm-defences with fingered gauntlets, a pair of full leg defences with pointed sabatons, decorated throughout with etched scrolling foliage complete with a halberd (tip chipped, areas of wear overall); the second similar, plain, with a sword, each on an elaborate wooden stand in art deco style incorporating a hinged front concealing a drinks cabinet the first: 167.0 cm; 65 3/4 in high including halberd

A MINIATURE CAP-A-PIE ARMOUR WITH ETCHED DECORATION IN THE 16TH CENTURY STYLE, 19TH CENTURY of steel, comprising close helmet with two-piece combed skull, pivoted visor and bevor, the former pierced with ventilation-holes, and a single fixed gorget-plate front and rear; breastplate and backplate, each of one plate, the former medially ridged and fitted at its lower edge with a skirt, one-piece tassets and flat codpiece; large symmetrical pauldrons connected by turners to three-piece vambraces with winged couters (the left perforated at the point of the elbow); full legharness with winged poleyns and integral articulated sabatons; the front of the armour etched overall with scrolling foliage on a blackened ground involving, at the centre of the breastplate, with an escutcheon charged with a rampant lion and shield; on a wooden stand with a black-painted wooden base 52.0 cm; 20½ in

A FINE AND IMPORTANT NORTH ITALIAN LEFT CHEEK-PIECE OF A BURGONET WITH EMBOSSED AND DAMASCENED DECORATION, MILANESE, CIRCA 1580, PROBABLY FROM THE ATELIER OF LUCIO MARLIANI, CALLED PICCININO of sub-rectangular form, cut away in a diagonal line at the rear of its upper edge and pierced there with two holes, one occupied by a brass-capped rivet, for the attachment of an internal hinge that formerly connected it to the sides of a burgonet, cut at the front of the same edge with a shallow notch to accommodate the rear of the burgonet's peak, flanged outwards at the rear of its lower edge to serve as a continuation of the latter's neck-guard, and projecting downwards at the front of the same edge where it is fitted with a brass-capped rivet for the attachment of a chin-strap, its front and lower rear edges turned inwards and decorated with roping indicated by gilt diagonal lines, its surface finely embossed, engraved and damascened in gold on a blued ground with a classical warrior at its centre standing before a city, intertwined serpents in the flange of its lower edge, and a helmet and shield in the downward projection of the front of its lower edge, all enclosed within strapwork damascened with delicate running scrollwork 15.0 cm; 5? in high x 10.6 cm; 4¼ in wide The cheek-piece is probably from the atelier of the Milanese armourer Lucio Marliani, called Piccinino, who decorated armour based on the designs of Andrea Casalini of Parma. His work is identifiable from the signature LUCIO/IÇR jointly representing himself and his assistant Gerolamo Assi, occurring on a saddle-steel in the Muzeum Narodowe, Cracow, inv. no. XIV -412. Paolo Morigia, in his Nobilità di Milano of 1595, praised Lucio Piccinino both for his relief work in iron and silver and his damascening, noting that he had made costly armours for Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma, and other princes. The Duke of Parma's armour is thought to be that preserved in the Hofjagd- und Rustkammer, Vienna, inv. nos A 1132, 1153 & 1153a-b. The cheek-piece offered here closely resembles in form that of the Duke's burgonet. The warrior decorating its centre and the intertwined serpents decorating its lower edge can be compared with similar subjects forming part of the ornament of the Duke's breastplate, also appearing in Casalini's designs for it. See Godoy & Leydi 2003, pp. 9-21, 270-94, 306, 308-11, 321, 478-82 & 488, figs XV-XVIII.

A NORTH EUROPEAN ZISCHÄGGE, MID-17TH CENTURY with one-piece hemispherical skull embossed with six radiating ribs and fitted at its apex with a pierced finial and large circular washer, at its brow with a flat obtusely-pointed peak, at its nape with a flaring neck-guard of four lames (the fourth cracked at its right), and at each side with a pendent scutiform cheek-piece (each detached at its rear) pierced at its centre with seven auditory holes in rosette-formation, the peak pierced at its rear with a rectangular hole to accommodate a sliding nasal-bar with a leaf-shaped upper end struck with the mark 'l' and retained by a staple and locking-screw at the brow, the main edges of the helmet formed with plain inward turns and its surfaces coloured black overall 26.4 cm; 10 3/8 in (with cheek-pieces)

A SOUTH GERMAN BURGONET, CIRCA 1560-70 with pointed one-piece skull boxed in four panels, rising to a prominent baluster-shaped finial, the upper half of which is faceted and the lower writhen, projecting forward to a flat obtusely pointed integral peak and backward to a similar but slightly shorter and more obtusely-pointed integral neck-guard, fitted internally with a quilted canvas lining and at each side with a hinged cheek-piece (restored) flanged outwards at its front and rear to serve respectively as continuations of its peak and neck-guard, and pierced at its centre within a raised circle with four auditory-holes separated by a four-pointed star, the helmet formed at its main edges with file-roped inward turns accompanied by recessed borders, the whole with an overall blued finish (now lightly to moderately pitted, the skull with a plugged hole at the upper end of its left rear facet and a patch at the front of the cut-out for the right cheek-piece) 24.3 cm; 9¼ in

A FINELY MADE ONE-FIFTH SCALE MODEL IN PEWTER SHEET BY A.M.G. MCLEOD, CIRCA 1990, OF A CLOSE HELMET MADE IN THE ROYAL ARMOUR WORKSHOPS AT GREENWICH, CIRCA 1585-90 AND NOW IN THE ROYAL ARMOURIES MUSEUM, LEEDS, INV. NO. IV. 41 AND A PORTRAIT OF MAXIMILLIAN, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR (1459-1519) AFTER HANS BURKMAIR, 20TH CENTURY the right of the bevor bruised; mounted in a domed glass display-case with a printed label, and accompanied by a numbered certificate of authenticity signed by the Master of the Armouries; the second depicting the mounted armoured Holy Roman Emperor with the date above; and an oval engraved portrait (cut out) of a late 17th century sitter wearing a late 16th century Greenwich armour (3)

˜The Property of a Gentleman AN EXCEPTIONAL CASED PAIR OF 30 BORE SILVER-MOUNTED FLINTLOCK DUELLING PISTOLS OF PRESENTATION QUALITY BY JOHN MANTON, LONDON, NO. 1921, LONDON 1790/1, SILVER MAKER'S MARK OF MICHAEL BARNETT, PROBABLY MADE FOR FRANCIS INGRAM SEYMOUR-CONWAY (1743-1822), 2ND MARQUESS OF HERTFORD with heavy octagonal browned twist scratch rifled barrels signed in gold capitals, fitted with gold fore-sights, the breeches with blued steel back-sights, inlaid with a gold line and with gold-lined vents (two very small areas of light pitting, minor scratches), engraved case-hardened tangs decorated with trophies-of-arms and scrolls, signed stepped case-hardened bevelled locks fitted with cocks en suite, engraved case-hardened steels with rollers, blued bolt safety-catches also locking the steels, gold-lined semi-rainproof pans, detents, and blued set triggers, highly figured walnut half-stocks with finely formed chequered swelling 'bag-shaped' butts, very fine full silver mounts en rocaille comprising trigger-guards engraved with trophies-of-arms on the bows and each struck with Paris petite garantie mark used from 1819, the terminals chased with trophies involving a classical helmet, side-plates chased in high relief with elaborate trophies-of-arms, butt-caps decorated with further trophies centring on a Satyr mask at the front and with a classical armour beneath a canopy at the base of the spine, each struck with Paris mark en suite with the trigger-guards, escutcheons with small traces of the owner's engraved crest (partially erased) and with borders chased en suite, rear ramrod-pipes chased with further trophies and a rococo bow, silver fore-end caps, silver barrel bolt escutcheons, original horn-tipped ramrods, retaining most of their original finish and perhaps unfired: in their fitted mahogany case, probably the original (cracks, ivory key escutcheon replaced), the interior with green baize (perhaps early), with leather-covered imitation tortoise shell three-way flask (small losses), and cleaning rod, with a small card typed and inscribed with provenance details 25.5 cm; 10 in barrels 38.2 cm; 15 in overall Provenance Probably, Francis Ingram Seymour-Conway (1743 - 1822), 2nd Marquess of Hertford Major Hugh Pollard, sold December 1922 for £30 Major H. W. Hall, sold Sotheby's 1967 Macdonald Beathy, sold 1968 Wilfred Ward, sold Christie's King Street, 27th October 1993, lot 105, £32,200 These pistols have been associated with a Marquess of Hertford since the early 20th Century. What remains of the crest would reinforce this attribution though insufficient detail remains to be absolutely certain of this. The attribution of the original owner to Richard, 5th Marquis of Hertford, must be discounted as he was born in 1818. The second Marquis, cited above is perhaps the most plausible candidate, passing to his son, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, 3rd Marquess and from him to Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess, whose widow founded the Wallace Collection. The latter spent his early life in Paris and this might explain the later French marks on the trigger-guards and butt-caps. Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Second Marquess of Hertford (1743-1822), was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford followed by a grand tour with his tutor, the antiquary Walter Bowman, in 1764-5. He entered the House of Commons in 1766 as member for Lostwithiel and took over the borough of Orford in 1768. He spoke regularly in the House of Commons and was credited 'if not with eloquence, at least with knowledge of the subject'. During the American War of Independence he was a reliable supporter of Lord North's administration and held ministerial offices including lord of the Treasury and a privy councillor for Great Britain from 1780. However, he never attained the post of secretary at war to which he aspired. While a strong supporter of the political links between Britain and Ireland, he argued against the formal political and commercial union of the two countries. In the later part of his career in the Commons he was generally associated with the Foxite opposition against Pitt, but in 1793 spoke in favour of the Aliens Bill, seconding Pitt's address to the king, which paved the way for the abandonment of neutrality in favour of war with revolutionary France. Later in the same year he was employed as an informal roving ambassador to the king of Prussia and to other German courts, and was given a military mission in that area the following year. In 1797 he acquired the lease of Manchester (later Hertford) House which became his principal London residence, and it remained within the Hertford family until the establishment of the Wallace Collection by his grandson. On Pitt's return to government in 1804 Hertford was appointed master of the horse (1804-6) and later installed as a Knight of the Garter. Through his wife's influence at court he became lord chamberlain of the household (1812-21). He died on 17 June 1822 at Hertford House, Manchester Square, London, and was buried in the family vault in Ragley, Warwickshire. Literature John A. Atkinson, The British Duelling Pistol, p. 74 D.H.L. Back, The Mantons, 1993, p. 33 B. Dickens, "M·B" The Gun Makers' Silversmith - A Question of Attribution" in Journal of the Arms & Armour Society, March 1999, pp 110 - 114

TWO EPEES AND TWO COURT SWORDS 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY the first two with tapering blades terminating in a button-shaped finial, openwork brass hilts decorated with neo-rococo scrolls and helmet-shaped pommels; the third with slender blade and burnished iron hilt decorated in imitation of brilliants and the fourth probably for a diplomat, with brass hilt with beadwork border the first: 86.5 cm; 34 in blades (4)

Boxes and Objects - a Cossor Melody Maker valve radio; an Empire Aristocrat portable typewriter; a miner's safety lamp; an ARP Wardens helmet, etc

A 20th century French brass fireman's helmet

A small collection of military items including a respirator, helmet, U.S. bottle and other items

A WWII Air Raid Precaution helmet

A military aviation flight helmet

A GERMAN WERMACHT STYLE SECOND WORLD WAR TYPE SINGLE DECAL M35 STEEL HELMET, the outer shell with single eagle swastika decal, leather interior with nine tongues and leather chin strap. Stamped: 'ET 66, 803', hand engraved initials: 'M.SH'. 28.5cms front to back, 24cms wide.(B.P. 24% incl. VAT) CONDITION REPORT: May have a certain amount of repainting as seems in particularly good condition for its age. Lining appears unused, chin strap has wear. Not certain it is period. Trace of SS runes visible under paint. Evidence of overpainting.

A Cromwell protective headwear racing car helmet with a brown hard hat and peak and stitched leather ear and neck guard, with a webbed and fabric interior with labels Carburton Safety Euston 4793, J Lewis of Racing, Flying & Motor Clothing ...No123

A Victorian copper helmet coal scuttle, with coal, and two copper kettles.

A copper helmet coal scuttle, three Victorian steel fire irons with brass handles, pair of oak bellows, and a copper jug.

WWII leather flying helmet with breathing apparatus

A French bronze and onyx mounted model of a Classical hero, circa 1900, portrayed standing, wearing a winged helmet and holding a shortsword in his left hand, his right arm raised, a hunting horn slung from his belt, the integrally cast base modeled with a tree stump, atop a shaped onyx socle, 34cm high overall Provenance: The collection of Dr. Lester Jenkins, Lynn, Massachusetts

A vintage Everoak motorcycle crash helmet, a Triumph workshop manual for Unit Construction 650cc Twins, also a Smiths voltmeter, ignition and various other items believed to be from a Triumph Stag.

A WWII period RAF G-Type flying helmet (size 2), .48225/58 with War Issue mark, three contemporary oxygen masks, all with War Issue mark, further detached pair of ear protectors and four ex-aircraft instruments comprising compass, RPM meter, rate of climb indicator and air speed indicator. CONDITION REPORT All variously worn, stained and discoloured, commensurate with use and age.

A boxed post-WWII era helmet, protective flying Mk.2.A (size medium broad), no.13933, visor no.9231, retaining internal modification record, instruction leaflet and foam insert, also an earlier loose Mk.1A example (size 2 broad), no.95896, a small quantity of helmet microphone cable equipment and loose visor, a 1980s French Paratrooper helmet stamped for Dunois, Cousance, with internal canvas and foam liner and a cased pair of Eikow Airspace Port 7x50 field binoculars. CONDITION REPORT Some wear throughout, particularly to the loose items.

A GEORGE III SILVER HELMET SHAPED CREAM JUG, strap handle (a.f.), foliate band below rim, wreath cartouche with initials, circular foot, marks partially rubbed, London 1799, together with a silver barrel shaped christening mug, a silver ashtray, a Walker & Hall circular silver sugar bowl and a small twin handled trophy with ebonised wooden plinth, approximate gross weight 13.1ozt, 407 grams (5)

A 9ct gold charm in the form of a knight's helmet, 6g

A George III silver cream jug, of helmet shape, London 1785, marks rubbed, 14cm high

An Edwardian Irish silver cream jug, of helmet shape, profusely embossed with birds, animals and flowers, raised on three lion mask claw feet, 10cm high, Dublin 1902, 5ozs.

Copper coal helmet & companion wares

A George III silver twin handled sugar bowl, of curved form, with partly fluted decoration, beneath a foliate engraved band, raised on four bun feet and a helmet shaped milk jug, in a matching design, both London 1807, combined weight 458 gms, (2).

Silver and silver mounted wares, comprising; a Victorian glass butter dish, the glass body of frosted coopered form, with a swingover handle, London 1866, a milk jug, of helmet shaped form with engraved decoration, the hallmarks rubbed and two 18th century salts, each of circular cauldron form, raised on three feet, the hallmarks rubbed, combined weight of weighable silver 180 gms, (4).

Silver, comprising; a late Victorian sugar caster, of cylindrical form, in the late 17th century taste, London 1899 and a milk jug, of helmet shaped form, having a reeded rim, raised on a plain square foot, London 1979, combined weight 352 gms, (2).

A Victorian silver milk jug, with floral embossed decoration, scrolling handle and raised on three shell capped pad feet, London 1838 and a later Victorian silver milk jug, of helmet shaped form, decorated with gadrooned rims, Chester 1900, combined weight 381 gms, (2).

VINTAGE COTTON COVERED BEECHWOOD CHILD-SIZED DRESS MAKER'S MANNEQUIN, 16" (40.7cm) high, together with TWO SHOULDER AND NECK MANNEQUINS COVERED IN WAXED COTTON, an adult's and a child's, 8" (20.3cm) and 6" (15.2cm) high; a TWO-PART WOODEN LOWER LEG AND FOOT TEMPLATE OR SPLINT, 9" (48.3cm) long; a rolled up CANVAS CAMP BED with metal frame and a TIN HELMET (6)

VICTORIAN BRASS DRESS HELMET FOR THE NORTH SOMERSET REGIMENT with applied foliate and scroll decoration, the front applied with crowned badge centered with V.R monogram, probably original leather lining showing wear but lacking chinstrap and mounts

Yeats (William Butler). The Cornell University Press 'Manuscript Materials' series, 12 vols, qto cloth in d.w., first printings, with many photog. repr. of the mss., as follows: Purgatory [1986] ed. Sandra F. Siegel; The Wind Among the Reeds [1993] ed. Carolyn Holdsworth; The Herne's Egg [1993] ed. Alison Armstrong; The Wild Swans at Coole [1994] ed. Stephen Parrish; The Winding Stair (1929) [1995] ed. David R. Clark; In the Seven Woods and The Green Helmet and Other Poems [2002] ed. David Holdemann; The Words Upon the Window Pane [2002] ed. Mary Fitzgerald; The Land of Heart's Desire [2002] ed. Jared Curtis; The Only Jealousy of Emer and Fighting The Waves [2004] ed. Steven Winnett; Collaborative One-Act Plays 1901-1903 [with Lady Gregory] ed. James Pethica [2006]; At the Hawk's Well and The Cat and the Moon [2010] ed. Andrew Parkin; The Resurrection [2011] ed. Jared Curtis & Selina Guinness. A fine set, essential to a serious student of Yeats. (12)Provenance: Yeats Family Collection.

Theatre EditionsYeats (W.B.) The Green Helmet, Stratford-upon-Avon (Shakespeare Head Press) 1911, First Theatre Edn; also Deirdre, Stratford, 1914; Cathleen ni Houlihan, Stratford 1911, both Second Theatre Edns.; also The Hour-Glass, A Morality, and The Pot of Broth, L. [1905] and 1911, all orig. ptd. wrappers. A good lot. (5)

An assortment of New Hall type porcelain, circa 1790, comprising: a slop bowl; a sugar box and cover; five various helmet jugs; and various teawares

An assortment of New Hall type porcelain, circa 1790, comprising: six various helmet jugs; various tea and coffee wares and a Chinese Export spoon tray

A rare Indo-Persian suit of armour, 18th/19th century, comprising four plates conjoined with straps and profusely decorated overall with scrolling foliage in silver and gold damascene, retaining elements of their original quilted backing, complete with a brace of bazu bands, or arm defences, these also complete with quilted liners and mail gauntlets,the matching kulah khud, or helmet, with one-piece hemispherical horned skull set with a face and also decorated to match, though with the addition of a band of calligraphy across the forehead,breastplates 30.5cm highhelmet 22cm higharmguards 31cm highhoused in a pine trunk 54.5cm wide

Replica divers helmet

Britains set 27, Band of the Line in original ROAN box (VG, drum major wrist broken, one helmet spike missing, box F, sticky tape applied) 1953 (12)

* Britains sets 145 Royal Army Medical Corps four horse Ambulance and 146 Army Supply Corps two horse wagon, collar harness, each with two seated men (F-P, two driver arms and three helmet balls missing, some traces replaced or missing, one head and ASC wagon seat loose, some retouching) (12)

Royal Field Artillery double Limber six horse Britains recast collar harness team and four seated men, and Steadfast Royal Field Artillery at attention on foot with three senior Officers (E, one helmet ball missing) (39)

Medley of New Toy Soldiers Pipers, Cavalry, George Washington, Cavalry Fatigues, Mascot, Motorcyclists and others (E--VG, one helmet damaged) (57)

Britains set 35, Royal Marine ArtilleryTHIRD VERSION, box pack, square base, infantry helmet, with Officer in early printers decorated original box (VG-G, box F-P, one sticky label affixed) 1921 (8)